{"id":46989,"date":"2025-07-30T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46989\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:25:09","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-on-a-falcon-9-rocket-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46989\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-eight more Starlink satellites are now in Earth orbit after launching from Florida on Tuesday night (July 29).<\/p>\n

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 11:37 p.m. EDT (0337 GMT on July 30) rom Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> in Florida. After a nine minute climb into space, the 28 Starlink broadband internet satellites (group 10-29<\/a>) were on track to be deployed into their intended orbit.<\/p>\n

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The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lands atop an ocean-based droneship in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The launch marked the 26th flight of the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage (B1069), which made it safely back to a landing on the droneship “Just Read the Instructions,” which was positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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The 28 satellites added to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit<\/a> megaconstellation, which now totals more than 8,050 active units (out of the over 9,300 launched since 2018), according to satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The launch was SpaceX<\/a>‘s 96th mission of the year, of which all but three were on Falcon 9 rockets. The company plans two more liftoffs this week: another Starlink mission on Wednesday (July 30) from California and the launch of the Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station on Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n

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